Am Mittwoch, 26. Juli 2017 10:17 CEST, "G. C." <kalei...@gmail.com> schrieb: > Its only because posters are not aware, that to this list they must set > up their mail program to send text only.
Sorry, bat that's absolutely wrong! What come over garbled was the mail subject line and that get's transfered in the mail header and that is (as specified in RFC 5322) 7-bit (sic!) ANSI encoded. So, a standard email subject can not contain characters outside the ŕather limited set of the 127 stndard ASCI characters. That's nothing a client should (or could) mess with. Now, since the rest of the (non-american) world obviously would appreciate being able to use more characters there's a standard way to encode these characters (called 'encoded-word' syntax in rfc2047). That all should be done authomatically by the mail client software. Unfortunately, from all Ican tell this mailing list does not use one of freely available list management software (mailman, sympa, majordomo ...) but rather a seemingly self-written solutions that a certain spots might be missing some sophistication (see for example the explosion of links in reply mails ...). Cheers, Ralf Mattes P.S.: to the list master, in case he reads this: please don't take the above as a critique, I'm thankful for the list in it's current state. > G. > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
